If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
~George Washington
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
~Benjamin Franklin
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
~Alexander Hamilton
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
~Thomas Jefferson
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
~John Adams
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.